TELEGRAM TO M. V. FRUNZE

Published:First published in 1941 in the book:M. V. Frunze na frontakh grazhdanskoi voiny. Sbornik dokumentov(M. V. Frunze on the Civil War Fronts. A Collection of Documents), Moscow.

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25.VII.1919

FrunzeRevolutionary Military Council, Eastern Front

Ourfailures and the delays south of Buzuluk, at Uralsk
and at Tsaryov strike me as very alarming. Please give thematter greatest attention and inform me more precisely.
The restoration of the railway to
Uralsk[1]is vitally
essential.[2]

LeninChairman, Council of Defence

[1]Inthe text of the telegram Lenin marked off the words: “strike
me as very alarming. Please give the matter” and “The
restoration of the railway to Uralsk”. In the margin he wrote: “In code.”
—Ed.

[2]Inreply (their telegram of July 28, 1919) Frunze and Lashevich
informed Lenin that the situation south of Buzuluk and in the
Uralsk area gave no cause for alarm; that not later than July 31
the whole right bank of the Ural River would be liberated from
the enemy, and that the railway to Uralsk was cleared and rapidly
being repaired. The telegram also mentioned that a serious
situation had arisen north of Astrakhan.